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the only product on the market with no safe use. keeping all pharmacies as a place of health, no exception. in all of europe, which i just returned from, no pharmacies sell cigarettes. in canada, there are no pharmacies that sell cigarettes. they have been outlawed. thank you so much for your consideration. i will answer any questions you might have. supervisor chiu: thank you. mr. gordon? >> thank you, dr. katz, for your leadership with this issue. my name is bob gordon. i am a member of the san francisco tobacco free coalition. after saying just a few words i would like to deliver to you several letters from pharmacists in san francisco. they would like to see all pharmacies, licensed, her becoming tobacco free. i would like to read a typical comment, both of these pharmacists were not able to leave their stores to make it to the hearing. the first is from gerald of a los. "der supervisors, pharmacies dispense medication and health information to promote and maintain the good health of our patients. to this end, case has not carri
the only product on the market with no safe use. keeping all pharmacies as a place of health, no exception. in all of europe, which i just returned from, no pharmacies sell cigarettes. in canada, there are no pharmacies that sell cigarettes. they have been outlawed. thank you so much for your consideration. i will answer any questions you might have. supervisor chiu: thank you. mr. gordon? >> thank you, dr. katz, for your leadership with this issue. my name is bob gordon. i am a member of...
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we are using the same model that got us into trouble and we have not learned anything. we are really making a mistake. if you look at my brief, the averages $1.2 million each year. the reason we are losing this kind of money is because we are paying $3.5 million for someone to push tickets. i worked at a golf course as a kid and i was one of those ticket counters. it did not take $3.5 million. we can still have the tournament if we have a competent staff that can run this and it should be put out for bid. there are managers that will pay less money. [tone] you should look at it, you cannot do it today but you have got to look at the contract, there are so many holes. supervisor avalos: thank you larry much. next speaker, please? >> my name is richard harris with the public alliance of 4500 member golfers. we have appear before you before. we have discussed public building matters with supervisors. we do support this contract. i have given you a letter dated september 16 stating our position. i am also giving you a letter from leedo, director of a golf club that supports
we are using the same model that got us into trouble and we have not learned anything. we are really making a mistake. if you look at my brief, the averages $1.2 million each year. the reason we are losing this kind of money is because we are paying $3.5 million for someone to push tickets. i worked at a golf course as a kid and i was one of those ticket counters. it did not take $3.5 million. we can still have the tournament if we have a competent staff that can run this and it should be put...
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gordon, the guide to tobacco free pharmacy's could be of use. i am always open to talking with the small business commission, and others as we have, to try to find solutions. i know that we have been in discussions with them and i am hoping we could move forward today. thank you. i would like to thank my colleagues for moving forward what is a very important issue. i certainly support this legislation and the concept behind it. i was very concerned about the situation affecting charley. i do not think that there are other businesses in this specific and special situation. i am wondering, have there been any conversations about providing them with time to transition out of the current business they are in now? it sounds from the testimony that if this were to go into effect, that establishment would close. would there be openness to considering a narrow exception in terms of giving them time to transition? >> from the information given to me,, the information is that i do not think that they will close, from what i heard. there's a certain percen
gordon, the guide to tobacco free pharmacy's could be of use. i am always open to talking with the small business commission, and others as we have, to try to find solutions. i know that we have been in discussions with them and i am hoping we could move forward today. thank you. i would like to thank my colleagues for moving forward what is a very important issue. i certainly support this legislation and the concept behind it. i was very concerned about the situation affecting charley. i do...
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first of all, it's supportive -- not -- it's a passive recreational use on the embarcadero and i think everyone i know of who lives on the east side of the city wants more recreation on the embarcadero. it would have a calming effect. it's a sport where people of all ages can participate. it's not difficult to learn how to play bocce ball. you can be 4 years old or 90 years old. it would a -- have a calming effect on the area. we envision office tournaments, families playing together, neighbors playing together. visitors even playing together. currently just in herman plaza in the median strip located between the two embarcadero roadways are very busy and management has received complaints from farmers market patrons and building tenants about the noise of the skate boarders and the so-called music. i have encountered this first hand so -- i see my time is up but i would definitely support and my neighborhood network supports the bocce ball courts. thank you. >> -- supervisor maxwell: any further public comment on this item? seeing none, then public comment is closed. planning departme
first of all, it's supportive -- not -- it's a passive recreational use on the embarcadero and i think everyone i know of who lives on the east side of the city wants more recreation on the embarcadero. it would have a calming effect. it's a sport where people of all ages can participate. it's not difficult to learn how to play bocce ball. you can be 4 years old or 90 years old. it would a -- have a calming effect on the area. we envision office tournaments, families playing together, neighbors...
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i'll turn it over to nick kinsey who will walk us through the agreement. >> good morning, supervisors, nick kinsey, the assistant manager of concessions, we do have a power point presentation here. >> you're a little tall. if you want to speak more directly into the mike. >> i'll try. but we'll need an extension. thank you, supervisors. as general manager ginsburg said the general manager before you is a management agreement between the city and tournament players club of california for the management of the harding park golf course. to give you a little bit of background, seven years ago the city signed an agreement with kemper management for the management of the facility and as general manager ginsburg said that agreement actually had a two-year extension which the department felt that we could put this out to bid and perhaps obtain better financial terms for the city. so in february of this year we put out a request for qualifications soliciting bids to manage the golf course and we received five timely, responsive bids, ultimately the department and our commission selected the to
i'll turn it over to nick kinsey who will walk us through the agreement. >> good morning, supervisors, nick kinsey, the assistant manager of concessions, we do have a power point presentation here. >> you're a little tall. if you want to speak more directly into the mike. >> i'll try. but we'll need an extension. thank you, supervisors. as general manager ginsburg said the general manager before you is a management agreement between the city and tournament players club of...
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then the arbitration provision essentially helps us resolve it. there's no cost or penalty to us even if we were not to prevail in that case. it just gives them the option to say we're going to provide you 270 days or nine months' notice to identify another management entity. i think from their perspective and again, they're here and you can ask them -- >> i understand that but that's not the easiest thing to do. we don't want to get to that point as far as i'm concerned. >> of course not. >> when you get there, seems like you've gone too far. and i can understand you know, the course and having it meeting a certain standard. the problem is, if we go below a certain amount, which to me is very specific, but reasonable is not specific. so on their side, there's nothing real specific other than reasonable but on our side it's 15.0%. so if we were going to go with that, what is reasonable? i think we need to have that spelled out a little bit more and not just whoever determines what reasonable is. >> it's a very valid point. these were -- this is ag
then the arbitration provision essentially helps us resolve it. there's no cost or penalty to us even if we were not to prevail in that case. it just gives them the option to say we're going to provide you 270 days or nine months' notice to identify another management entity. i think from their perspective and again, they're here and you can ask them -- >> i understand that but that's not the easiest thing to do. we don't want to get to that point as far as i'm concerned. >> of...
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last year, the use to want to kick us out of the room, and they never succeeded, but they still wanted to do that nonetheless. the other point i wanted to make was to echo ms. jackson's statements about the good faith effort approach to local hiring, a lot of us are working to strengthen and eliminate the good faith effort approach to local hiring, hopefully, to get the kind of system where we can get everybody who is out of work right now, especially the folks that are struggling as much as folks on the ground in communities to really get more of -- what we're looking for is union jobs. to get folks in the community in good, solid work, and to get our brothers and were -- brothers and sisters from the rank-and- file to work. we think the way to do that is to eliminate good faith effort. we even published a report called "the failure of good faith" because we feel very strongly about this because we feel that it failed. so i'm going to give you a copy of this. and that any further public comment? -- >> any further public comment? seeing none, we can move on. >> mr. president, the next
last year, the use to want to kick us out of the room, and they never succeeded, but they still wanted to do that nonetheless. the other point i wanted to make was to echo ms. jackson's statements about the good faith effort approach to local hiring, a lot of us are working to strengthen and eliminate the good faith effort approach to local hiring, hopefully, to get the kind of system where we can get everybody who is out of work right now, especially the folks that are struggling as much as...
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it's mixed use. it's one of the very few places that i, as a senior, can sit down because i can no longer like sit down on the lawn for very long, but it's nice to have some lawn to be through, but there is a raised cement and stuff where i can perhaps wait for the bus for an hour or so which frequently is how long it takes the bus to get to there. it's behind the bus stops. if the bocce ball court goes in there, it's really going to take over the whole space. it's not going to be useable. i will absolutely guarantee it will be fenced in no time. i think this is a very still think thing claiming that it's a gift that they're getting exclusive use to a public park for a very cheap price. that's a very valuable piece of land and i'm just furious. there has been so much privatization of our land, there is almost nothing left. thank you. supervisor maxwell: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is ben jay minute toesy. i'm the president of the club at the aquatic park. for the last six years a
it's mixed use. it's one of the very few places that i, as a senior, can sit down because i can no longer like sit down on the lawn for very long, but it's nice to have some lawn to be through, but there is a raised cement and stuff where i can perhaps wait for the bus for an hour or so which frequently is how long it takes the bus to get to there. it's behind the bus stops. if the bocce ball court goes in there, it's really going to take over the whole space. it's not going to be useable. i...
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we use that to assemble our grocery bags. every day monday through thursday, 9:00 to 2:00 in the afternoon we do that. so without that space, we will not be able to continue our program. thank you. supervisor maxwell: thank you. john and then father mccarthy and then jim foster. >> my name is john. i'm executive director of groceries for seniors and also one of the founders of groceries for seniors which was started in 1999 at sacred heart church in the western addition. after five years of being at sacred heart church, they were not able to come up with the renovation money to -- because they had also been affected by the 1989 earthquake. the city gave them three five-year extensions, and still the congregation, which was a very small congregation could not come up with the money. and at that point, one of the co-founders of the program, father and brother jack from u.s.f. was a brother in the jesuit ministry. he was the co-founder of the program. he is since deceased. so i wrote to all of the catholic churches in san franci
we use that to assemble our grocery bags. every day monday through thursday, 9:00 to 2:00 in the afternoon we do that. so without that space, we will not be able to continue our program. thank you. supervisor maxwell: thank you. john and then father mccarthy and then jim foster. >> my name is john. i'm executive director of groceries for seniors and also one of the founders of groceries for seniors which was started in 1999 at sacred heart church in the western addition. after five years...